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...himself to hell by passing as a gentile. In scenes that seem to have emerged from the mainstream of Russian literature, Lebedev (Hugh Griffith), a rabid anti-Semite, makes Bok a trusted employee until Lebedev's daughter Zinaida (Elizabeth Hartman) falsely accuses the fixer of rape. The recriminatory shriek becomes a chorus when religious fanatics also accuse Bok of ritual murder. The fixer is seized and imprisoned. The . machinery of the state begins: moved by a heritage of hate, it tries to grind the fixer to dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two-Thirds of Greatness | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...torrent of sweat in a black leather suit--no, wait, it's a high-roll collar dealie, and can you dig his pants? Heartbreak Hotel? Raunchy as ever? Hound Dog? It's too good to be true! That quiver that makes girls moan from their stomachs made me shriek at the top of my lungs: "Elvis, Elvis, you son of a bitch, you are the KING...

Author: By John Leone, | Title: The King Revealed | 12/5/1968 | See Source »

...utterly anomalous in the excitement and emotionalism of the battle and the setting: Nolan acts with the cool detachment of a German SS officer. And when he himself is killed by a piece of shrapnel at the beginning of the Charge, he emits a high-pitched shriek which becomes disembodied--suddenly the contorted face on the screen is no longer producing the sound, for the shriek is that of a modern artillery shell...

Author: By David I. Bruck, | Title: The Charge of the Light Brigade | 10/29/1968 | See Source »

...news from Biafra daily il lustrates, hunger is more than a growl from the stomach; it is a shriek from the soul. Robbed of nourishment, the body consumes its own flesh until the victim is literally no longer himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Hunger | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

...pole whirs in front of the hounds, who pant frantically after it. The majority of races are sprints, and even the long races are over before you have time to tear your eyes away from Swifty. Most bettors stay custered around the TV's in the grandstand and shriek and hoot for "2" or "8" or "5". Almost no-one calls the hounds by name...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phaile, | Title: Hard Day's Night at Wonderland | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

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